Land art and site specific sculpture - land art uses
the environment and its scale as its material. Concrete art is expressed in
material itself with which the artist introduces her non-representational objective.
Public art can be viewed and accessed by observers.

CITIES - sculptures and land art

Zaanstad

this sculpture to be was to be
given away to a project anywhere in the world

Zaanstad
is the home of Victory. The forty-four meter wide painted
steel sculpture by Lucien den Arend inhabits the void under
highway A8. In the sixties this highway was projected through
the heart of the Dutch town Koog aan de Zaan, now part of
Zaanstad.

Before, this location was a repulsive place devoid of
any quality - the view of the River Zaan being blocked by
the concrete piers. It was for this reason four artists
were commissioned to make proposals. Lucien den Arend concluded
that the only thing to do was to introduce a sculptural
element, so large that this degraded location would be overruled
by it. At the same time this work forms a belated protest
to the ruthless invasion of the sixties.